Russia can not severely restrict our access to Uranium.
62% of our supply comes from two allies and from our own production. The 18% from Russia could be made up through more imports from elsewhere. Begs the question, can Russia afford to forego the revenue from sales to the U.S.?
Just more righty misinformation to promote a false narrative.
The United States imports most of the uranium it uses as fuel
Owners and operators of U.S. nuclear power reactors purchased the equivalent of about 43 million pounds of uranium in 2017. About 7% of the uranium delivered to U.S. reactors in 2017 was produced in the United States and 93% came from other countries.
Sources and shares of U.S. purchases of uranium produced in foreign countries in 2017 Canada–35% Australia–20% Russia–18% Kazakhstan–12% Uzbekistan–5% Hungary, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, South Africa, Ukraine, and unknown–10%
ForReal, Claims of Clinton-Russia Uranium Collusion Are A Real Empty Barrel
James Conca Contributor Oct 27, 2017, 06:00am I write about nuclear, energy and the environment
Ok. Yet another debunk of your Uranium bullshit. From Forbes, which even you would not claim to be left-biased.
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- The Hill article was seized on by right-wing media and the President as evidence backing up a conspiracy theory that they've pushed amid the investigations into Russia's efforts to swing the presidential election to Donald Trump. The real collusion scandal, they claim, involves Russia and Hillary Clinton. The implication of the piece is that the FBI investigation should have been known to those who approved the deal in question.
Clinton's State Department and several government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States unanimously approved the 2010 partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, supposedly giving Moscow control of more than 20% of America’s uranium supply.
Obama and Clinton colluding to hand over 20% America’s strategic uranium to the Russians? On cue, Fox News gabber Sean Hannity said this could be 'the biggest scandal' in American history.
But here's the thing by 20%, we really mean almost zero.
Those U.S. facilities obtained by Russia produce almost nothing. The uranium deposits are of relatively poor grade and are too costly to compete on the uranium market. But the facilities do have good milling capacity to process ore, if anyone gives it to them, which hasn’t happened in about 10 years. Theoretically, they could process 20% of our ore, but that will never happen. Uranium One couldn’t give these facilities away.
Besides, Russia can’t export any uranium they produce in the U.S. They do not possess a Nuclear Regulatory Commission export license.
The real reason Russia wanted this deal was to give Rosatom’s subsidiary Uranium One's very profitable uranium mines in Kazakhstan ? the single largest producer of commercial uranium in the world.
Then, in 2011, the administration approved a Rosatom subsidiary to sell commercial uranium to U.S. nuclear power plants in partnership with the U.S. Enrichment Corporation. Up until then, Russia had been limited to selling our nuclear power plants uranium reprocessed from old Soviet nuclear weapons under the 1990s Megatons to Megawatts peace program. Nothing strange here, either. Finally, in 2013, Russia obtained 100% interest in Uranium One.
Rather than take action against this deal, the Department of Justice just continued investigating the matter for years, essentially leaving the American public, Congress, the secretary of state and the administration in the dark about more Russian meddling in the United States, this time involving nuclear.
Candidate Trump jumped on this issue during the 2016 campaign trail last year, but as secretary of state, Clinton was not involved in the committee review and never intervened on the matter, and there were several other agencies involved in the recommendation.
It is still not clear why no one at the FBI alerted the Obama administration to the Russian kickbacks, extortion threats and money laundering before these decisions were made. One theory is that the United States was still seeking to 'reset' its relationship with Russia and was also trying to get Putin on board with our Iran nuclear deal. But in the end, this Russian deal just wasn’t that important and had no national security ramifications.
As Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear nonproliferation expert at the Middlebury Institute, described it, Russia’s purchase of the company 'had as much of an impact on national security as it would have if they set the money on fire. That’s probably why (all the U.S. agencies involved) approved it.'
The key to this issue’s resurgence this week is that Hillary Clinton was secretary of state at the time, Bill Clinton was getting lucrative speaking fees in Russia, and Russian money was finding its way to the Clinton Foundation, although the amount turns out to be small. However, even if there was no wrongdoing on the part of the administration or the Clintons, and no national security reason for anyone to oppose this deal, some still want to make it another Benghazi.
As a scandal, this issue lacks relevance since Clinton is now a private citizen and Russian meddling in our 2016 election has become a bigger issue. In fact, all the attention now being paid to the uranium deal seems to have more to do with Robert Mueller’s present investigation of Russian collusion than with Clinton.
The political ramifications aside, what is the reality of our uranium supplies, and how much does Russian meddling affect them?
So where is it? So you think the uranium we sold them is a strategic asset that we can buy easily from Canada or Australia?
The Russian Company that bought into the production was call Rosatum = do you know who owns Rosatum? Oh and I really hate to scramble your limited knowledge but the deal was negotiated by Bush in 2008 and completed after going through the approval process. Oh and they bought into a CANADIAN COMPANY called Uranium one. You know where their tracts they can mine - Wyoming. Do you know who was VP under Bush and where he lives?
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